Max & Dominique Picard Tables

Coffee table / double top coffee table, original design, steel structure and enamelled lava top signed Ds. Picard Dominique Monsan Picard, Monsan Picard workshop circa 1960. Some defects in the lava, surely original, no breakage or crack. Very good condition for a magnificent piece. "The name of Picard, linked to the world of ceramics, dates back to the middle of the 19th century. For the part or parts that concern us, it is obvious that it is the 20th century part that interests us. The creations of the 20th century begin with Adrienne Picard, born in 1890 and died in 1963. Settled in 1920 in the studio of Maurice Denis, she produced stained glass cartoons. In 1921, she began training as a ceramist at the Manufacture de Sèvres. In 1922 she returned to Lyon to take over the management of her father Henri Picard's ceramic art workshop, a workshop created in the 19th century. She will keep the management of this factory until 1951. Around this same period 1947/1948, Max and Dominique Picard...